Unexpected changes in your body as you get older can really slow you down. Imbalances in your hormone levels can be unpredictable and uncomfortable. Luckily, Spa Black in San Antonio offers an effective way to combat these issues. 

Signs of Hormonal Problems 

Many times, people get accustomed to feeling less than their best as they get older. In some cases, this can mean that they don’t realize that some symptoms are a result of hormonal imbalances. 

Some of the signs of hormonal problems include:

• Depression
• Memory problems
• Anxiety 
• Weight gain
• Sleep problems
• Loss of muscle mass 
• Fatigue
• Low libido
• Poor sexual performance 
• Trouble thinking clearly 

These are just a few of the burdensome issues that hormone imbalances can cause. If you want relief from these issues, Spa Black has just the solution you are looking for. 

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Spa Black in San Antonio offers a revolutionary course of treatment for troublesome hormonal problems.

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is a custom treatment designed to improve your body’s daily function. It balances your hormones to an optimal level, creating a more youthful state of being. 

The qualified professionals at Spa Black will assess your needs and customize a treatment plan with you. We use hormonal treatments that mimic your body’s hormonal production process. This means that bioidentical hormones are basically indistinguishable from the ones your body makes on its own. 

You have options for your hormone replacement therapy at Spa Black. We recognize that everyone’s body has different needs, and we tailor your treatment specifically to you. 

Types of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Spa Black offers the following options for hormone replacement therapy: 

• Injections
• Patches
• Pills 
• Topical creams and gels
• Pellets

You have a wide array of choices for your hormone replacement therapy. When you turn to the trusted team at Spa Black, we’ll walk you through your options so that you can make an informed decision.

Which Option is Best For Me? 

Each method of delivery for our hormone replacement therapy can be effective for specific kinds of patients. The dedicated staff at Spa Black will help you figure out which choice is right for you. 

For some people, non-invasive treatment is their number one priority. This is where options like topicals or patches might be best. For others, injections or pills can effectively achieve their individual hormone replacement goals while suiting their lifestyle. 

The staff at Spa Black are experts in this field. We can assist you in making the right choice for yourself. 

Book a Consultation Today

Don’t wait any longer to address your pressing health issues. You deserve to live healthily and happily, free from hormonal problems and frustrating symptoms. 

Spa Black offers all of the best in hormone replacement therapy: a wide variety of options, friendly staff, and customized treatment for your health. We know what it takes to help patients feel their best.

If you’re ready to take advantage of the extensive benefits of hormone replacement therapy in San Antonio, contact us to book a consultation today!

As you age, you may realize that your once-firm, even skin is slipping away. It can be a bummer to look back on old photos of yourself with soft, supple skin. And every company seems to tout a miracle pill or magic cream to fix your skin. But what if there was a method that actually worked? 

Fortunately, you can achieve youthful, flawless skin again. If you’ve been suffering from discolored, sagging, and dull skin, you’ll be in good hands with the team at Spa Black in San Antonio, Texas. We offer microneedling, a revolutionary technique to enhance your skin. 

What is Microneedling?

Microneedling is a modern method of skin repair and rejuvenation. As your body’s production of collagen decreases with age, so does the quality of your skin. Microneedling uses your body’s natural repair system to create brand-new, smooth skin. 

Microneedling is an effective, safe procedure. Our providers use a small tool that creates tiny holes throughout targeted skin areas. This stimulates your body to produce collagen to repair the holes. 

The Science of Microneedling

Your body has two components that keep your skin youthful and elastic: collagen and elastin. Microneedling increases your body’s production of both of these compounds. 

Collagen is the protein that binds cells together to achieve tight, young skin. As you get older, your body produces far less collagen, thus aging your skin. 

Microneedling also drives elastin production. Elastin is the protein that keeps your skin tight and firm. It helps your skin bounce back after it experiences stretching, force, and pressure. Elastin production slows down as you age, leading to saggy, droopy skin. Microneedling at Spa Black can fix this! 

Renew Your Skin

Microneedling is an effective way to rejuvenate your tired, lackluster skin. Science has not yet found a way to prevent aging completely, but microneedling is a great skin renewal method in the meantime!

Other methods of skincare can be too harsh for the sensitive areas of your face. Your eye, lips, and neck areas will respond well to microneedling. When performed by the highly qualified professionals at Spa Black, microneedling will turn back the clock and improve the appearance of aging skin.

Is Microneedling Painful?

Microneedling is not supposed to be painful. True professionals have techniques to aid in your comfort level during the procedure. Spa Black only employs trained, experienced staff members who have your wellbeing in mind. 

Prior to your treatment, you will receive numbing cream to reduce any pain or discomfort from microneedling. 

Microneedling should be performed in intervals of four to six weeks. Spa Black ensures you receive quality care while protecting your health and scheduling appropriately-timed appointments. 

Book Your Microneedling with Spa Black Today

The experienced team at Spa Black in San Antonio is available to answer any questions or concerns about our microneedling procedure. Make the best decision for your skin today and give us a call!

At Spa Black in San Antonio, TX, we know that wrinkles happen to everyone, but that doesn’t mean they’re for everyone. Some people don’t want to live with lines and wrinkles, but they feel helpless, especially when the products and skincare treatments don’t seem to make a difference in improving those lines and wrinkles. That’s where Botox comes in, an injectable that can change how you feel about your appearance and help you live wrinkle-free.

When Should I Consider Botox?

Beginning a routine with cosmetic injectables is a very personal decision. Some choose to begin in their 20s; others wait until their 40s. Different factors can help determine when you should begin a routine with this injectable, but the timing won’t look the same for everyone. Whether you have moderate to severe lines and wrinkles, or you have just begun to see the faintest sign of crow’s feet or other wrinkles, there are different reasons to choose this injectable.

If you’re not sure what time is the right time to consider this injectable, now may be the time. As soon as you start to consider Botox, you probably need it for one reason or another and just need that push to begin a treatment that you won’t regret. An initial consultation with an injector is always the best way to determine if and when you should begin a routine with cosmetic injectables.

You Have Dynamic Lines and Wrinkles

The keyword here is dynamic. There are different types of lines and wrinkles, and they form for different reasons, but Botox treats the dynamic ones. Dynamic lines and wrinkles form from dynamic movements. Whenever you express, raise your eyebrows, squint, smile, frown, or any of the above, you make a dynamic movement. Dynamic movements are muscular movements that force your face into expressions throughout the day.

Addressing the Root Cause of Dynamic Wrinkles

You don’t see the signs of dynamic lines and wrinkles until you start to age. Lines and wrinkles begin to form not because something with your muscles has changed but because your skin has changed. Your body starts to produce less collagen and elastin, and your skin’s structure weakens. With the weakening of your skin comes the formation of dynamic lines and wrinkles.

Your skin doesn’t bounce back like it used to, and every expression works against your anti-aging goals by making line and wrinkles more prominent and a little deeper. The only way to address dynamic wrinkles is by addressing the muscle because it’s not possible, nor is it practical to just stop expressing. If you notice that the signs of aging on your face have resulted from dynamic movements, it may be time to add this injectable to your anti-aging routine.

You’re Preparing for a Special Event

If you haven’t begun a regular treatment plan with this injectable, and you have a special event coming up, it may be the perfect time to add Botox to your life. Brides often begin a routine with this injectable a few weeks before their wedding so that they can look their best on their big day and in their pictures.

However, once they start, they find that they can’t return to a Botox-free face, and they then make this injectable part of their regular beauty routine. Others schedule injection appointments before a high school reunion or another similar event to restore youth to their face and look and feel their best.

When To Schedule

If you want to schedule an injection appointment before your big day, make sure that you give yourself enough time for the results to kick in. Once you get an injection, it will take at least a week to see changes in the appearance of your lines and wrinkles. It’s best to schedule your appointment at least one to two weeks before your event.

If you have more questions about how and when to schedule your appointment to achieve the best results on your special day, one of our injectors will help you determine the best plan of attack.

Your Anti-Aging Products Aren’t Cutting It

If you’ve been staring at forehead lines, crow’s feet, or frown lines for any length of time and your topical anti-wrinkle cream just aren’t cutting it anymore, it may be time to turn to Botox to do what your products cannot. Since your muscles will keep contracting, your wrinkles are only going to get worse as you age, and while products can help deliver some anti-aging results, sometimes the wrinkle creams just don’t cut it.

If that’s the case, you will see some amazing improvements in your lines and wrinkles once you begin a routine with this injectable. You can still keep applying your anti-wrinkle cream and products to help keep your skin healthy and hydrated because while this injectable will smooth wrinkles, it won’t give you better skin. That happens at home.

You’re Ready To Commit to a Treatment Schedule

Another factor that can influence whether or not you should begin a routine with this injectable is your level of commitment to the process. Once you experience the effects of this injectable, you’ll love your results, but those results won’t last forever. Within three to four months, sometimes longer, the effects will begin to fade as you regain muscular movement.

When To Schedule Follow-Up Treatments

As the effects fade, so will your wrinkle-free appearance, and you’ll start to see those forehead lines, crow’s feet, or frown lines reappear. However, they won’t be back for long if you schedule follow-up treatments to help maintain your wrinkle-free appearance.

To maintain your wrinkle-free appearance long-term, you must be committed to regular follow-up treatments. If you do nothing, your wrinkles will return, but if you take action and schedule treatments every three to four months as needed, you can maintain smooth and wrinkle-free skin year-round.

The Treatment Benefits

There’s a reason that this injectable has become so popular, and it’s not just because it delivers wrinkle-free results, although that’s very high on the list. It’s the perfect alternative to surgical intervention, and it’s quick, virtually painless, and won’t require any downtime. It’s an affordable solution to combating the aging process without undergoing an invasive treatment. Appointments are quick and only take 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

Your Anti-Aging Results

Within a week of your appointment, you will see improvements in the appearance of your lines and wrinkles as the injectable ingredients do the work of relaxing your muscles to help soften your expressions and restore youth to your face.

You can also combine this injectable with dermal fillers to achieve the most youthful appearance and combat aging on every front. The results are long-lasting, and you will only need a few treatments each year to live a wrinkle-free life and enjoy every second of it.

Am I a Candidate?

While most people who consider beginning a routine with Botox make good candidates for the treatment, some do not. If you’re pregnant or nursing or have had an allergic reaction to the main ingredient in this injectable in the past, you won’t qualify for treatment. However, if you’re an adult in good health who wants to eliminate crow’s feet, forehead lines, or frown lines in a quick and virtually painless treatment, you make the perfect candidate for Botox.

At your initial consultation, we will review your medical history and analyze your lines and wrinkles in person to confirm that this injectable is right for you and will help you reach all of your anti-aging goals. We can also review other skincare treatments that may help enhance your results and help you achieve not only a wrinkle-free appearance but a glow of vitality and health.

Experience a Wrinkle-Free Life

If you’ve been searching for a Med Spa San Antonio that can meet all of your anti-aging needs, you just found it. Our expert skincare specialists and injectors are ready to help you put your best face forward so you can feel confident every day. Contact us today at Spa Black in San Antonio, TX, your new Spa San Antonio, and schedule your initial consultation to learn how this injectable can transform your appearance in the best way possible.

At Spa Black in San Antonio, TX, we know that everyone loves options, which is why we offer several different brands of dermal fillers. Everyone’s face ages differently, so it’s important to have a selection of fillers that can meet each patient’s aesthetic goals. Whether you want to address your face, lips, or eye area, we have a filler that can help meet all of your aesthetic needs.

What Are Dermal Fillers?

Dermal fillers are cosmetic injectables designed to restore volume to the face to combat the signs of aging and enhance the features to help create the most aesthetic-looking appearance. Dermal fillers can help restore volume to the face, enhance the lips, and address volume loss and hollow areas beneath the eyes.

There are two types of dermal fillers: those that contain a synthetic form of hyaluronic acid to plump the skin and those that contain a collagen-stimulating ingredient that helps your body create more natural collagen in the treatment area. Both provide a solution to aging but address the signs of aging in different ways. Some patients are better suited for HA fillers; others find their needs met with a collagen-stimulating filler. It all depends on the patient’s ultimate goals.

Hyaluronic Acid Fillers

Hyaluronic acid fillers are made with a synthetic form of hyaluronic acid. Your body produces hyaluronic acid to help keep your skin youthful and hydrated, but as your age, your body makes less hyaluronic acid, and your skin suffers. With the loss of volume in the face comes sagging or drooping skin and facial folds, and wrinkles.

Hollow areas also form, but there is a solution, and that’s where hyaluronic acid fillers come in. These fillers inject a gel substance made of a synthetic form of hyaluronic acid that matches what the body creates naturally to help combat aging and deliver natural, long-lasting results. Many contain lidocaine, which helps create a painless injection experience.

Collagen Stimulating Fillers

Collagen-stimulating fillers contain a primary ingredient that stimulates collagen production below the skin. While it does deliver that immediate plumping effect, it also works not only to improve your problem areas in the short term but also in the long term.

 Within a few months, your body will begin to make more collagen, so even as the filler wears off and your body metabolizes the main ingredient, you’ll still have some amazing results. These fillers are known for their longevity since they increase collagen production and can deliver results for up to five years.

The Different Fillers

Fillers for the Face

Dermal fillers designed to treat the face can significantly improve facial folds, lines and wrinkles, hollow areas, and sagging cheeks that all result from volume loss as you age. These fillers can contour, lift, and define your face to restore youth and create the best facial proportions.

At Spa Black, we offer both hyaluronic acid-based fillers for the face and collagen-stimulating fillers. Each of these can help restore your youth in different ways and make you feel more like your younger self again. We offer:

• Bellafill
• Radiesse
• Voluma
• Versa

 

Fillers for the Eye Area

As you age, your eye area can begin to suffer as changes in your facial fat distribution occur and hollow areas form below your eyes. Fillers can improve your appearance by adding volume to the eyes to give you that fresh-faced look, so you won’t always have to rely on concealer to look or feel your best. These fillers can help you look more awake and alive, more like your younger self, and sometimes even better.

At Spa Black, we offer two different hyaluronic acid-based fillers that can help target and treat concerns around the under-eye area: Belotero Balance and Volbella. When you come in for your initial consultation, one of our experts can help determine which of these fillers can best target and treat your under-eye area concerns so that you can live concealer-free if you want to.

Fillers for the Lips

Lip fillers have grown in popularity because everyone wants bigger lips. Whether your lips have thinned as a result of the aging process and collagen loss or your genetics have naturally predetermined your smaller lips, there are dermal fillers that can help restore or add volume to your lips to help you create the best facial proportions. These fillers can also help correct imperfections in the lips, including symmetry and volume issues, or redefine your lip border.

They can also help smooth wrinkles that form around the mouth, known as perioral lines. Perioral lines are difficult to treat with products, but fillers help restore volume below the skin’s surface to smooth those lines restore youth to the area around the mouth. At Spa Black, we offer two different fillers from the Juvederm brand that can help augment and perfect the appearance of the lips: Volbella and Juvederm Ultra XC.

What Can I Expect From the Treatment Process?

An initial consultation is a critical step in this process because it helps us confirm that you are a good filler candidate and helps us choose which one is right for you. Once we determine that you are a good candidate for one of these fillers, we can schedule your injection appointment.

These appointments are virtually painless and only take 10 to 20 minutes to complete. You can treat one or more areas during your appointment and still be back to work without exceeding your lunch hour.
 

The Injection Process

An injector will prepare your skin for treatment and then make a series of injections in your planned treatment area. These injections are quick and virtually painless as many of these products contain lidocaine.

This mild numbing medication can soothe the area and ensure your comfort during and after the injection process. The needle used to administer the treatment is very thin, making the whole process completely comfortable.

The Aftercare

You can get right back to your daily activities after your appointment, but you want to be mindful of the following directives to ensure that you get the best results. You should:

• Avoid environments that caused an increase in your body temperature 
• Avoid hot tubs, saunas, steam rooms, hot yoga, and even laying out in the sun
• Avoid touching or putting pressure on the treatment site after your appointment
• Avoid excess sun exposure and use an SPF when exposed to the sun
• Avoid strenuous exercise for 24 hours

 

Your Results: What to Expect

One of the reasons that patients love dermal fillers so much is because the results are immediate. As soon as you’re injected, you’ll get an immediate plumping effect, and your results will keep getting better for the next week as the filler settles within your skin.

How Long Do They Last?

Different fillers last for different amounts of time. Some last for six months at a time, others last one to two years. Some of the collagen-stimulating fillers can last up to five years. It depends on the products, the injection sites, the formulation, and the brand.

When you come in for your initial consultation, we will review the different fillers with you and discuss the longevity of each. Then, we’ll help you choose which one will help you meet your goals. Whichever filler you choose, you can expect long-lasting results.

Your Follow Up Treatments

Eventually, your body will metabolize your dermal filler, and your face will resume its pre-injection appearance. If you choose a collagen-stimulating filler, you’ll have the benefits of increased collagen, but since the aging process cannot be stopped, you will need to schedule a follow-up treatment to help maintain the best results.

Since all of these fillers deliver such long-lasting results, you can expect to schedule follow-up treatments once a year or longer. We can provide you with a better idea of how to best schedule your treatments when you come in for your appointment.

Restore Youthful Volume and Enhance Your Features

Fillers provide patients with a way to temporarily reverse the aging process. If you want to restore volume to your face or enhance different facial features, there is a filler that can meet your aesthetic needs. Contact us today at Spa Black in San Antonio, TX, to schedule your initial consultation so we can choose the right filler for your needs.